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RE: (meteorobs) Major Fireball Just Passed Over North Texas/Oklahoma

Actually, the video I saw wasn't that great, but it was video :-)
	In any case, the statement by the NORAD guy is so typical. Obviously the 
shower he was referring to is the Orionids. (I think he said 15th to 29th, 
so that fits). Of course, a fireball during the evening hours could NOT be 
an Orionid, since the radiant is will below the horizon at the time (It 
rises here about 22:30), but since he didn't even realize it was probably a 
rocket reentry, why should we expect him to know anything about meteors!
	

Wayne, returning to the land of the living, slowly. Work really is a pain 
:-)

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<http://www.msnbc.com/local/ksnw/148578.asp?cp1=1>

An excellent fireball video at this "News Release" web
page.

NORAD was quoted in the article.
It was very unsatisfying that NORAD didn't explicitly
say that it WASN'T RE-ENTRY DEBRIS.  A sargent at
NORAD was quoted as saying that it must be a "meteor
shower" because the "local weather people" warned them
of an upcoming "shower on the 15th" [?]!!

Aside from this meteor shower malarkey, this is still
an interesting story.
Still waiting for those sonic boom news reports to be
coming in.

Bob V.

--- Ginger Mayfield <chikadee@earthlinkdot net> wrote:
> There is a video clip at the site I posted earlier.
> I didn't have the right plug in so only saw the
still
> image.
>
> Ginger
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/local/ksnw/148578.asp?cp1=1

============= Attached News Release ===============

Witnesses see fire in the sky
WICHITA, Kansas, October 13 - Kansas watches as a
strange sight lights up the night.

As Friday Football Fever raged on the fields across
Kansas, lights were seen in sky.

Watch KSN News Video online!

"THERE'S ONE BIG WHITE LIGHT and around it
                         was like five little balls,
just lights, just following them. And
                         then thru the sky there was
just like vapors and vapors were
                         like different colors - blues
and oranges. It was just odd,"
                         said eyewitness Anthony Davis
of Valley Center.
                             We've had reports of the
fire in the sky from all over the
                         Midwest. From McCook,
Nebraska in the northwest,
                         through Great Bend to El
Dorado. In Wichita, hundreds
                         saw the sight.




      See video with NORAD
      explanation

                             Gary Bishop of south
Wichita said, "So I looked over my
                         shoulder and right across the
sky from the southwest to the
                         northwest, down a little bit.
There was a meteor that left a
                         trail of blue lights. It was
beautiful."
                             As the object screamed
across the sky, 911 couldn't
                         keep up with all the calls
that were coming in. 911
                         supervisors say they had more
phones ringing than
                         dispatchers to answer them.
They say they had around 150
                         calls from witnesses saying
they saw everything from space
                         aliens to a plane crash.
                             While dispatchers were
getting all those calls on the
                         meteor shower, they did have
a serious car accident to deal
                         with as well. Luckily,
supervisors say that call got through
                         without much of a wait and
response time wasn't affected.
                             So what was it in the
sky? We talked to the North
                         American Air Defense Command
to find out. Master
                         Sergeant Larry Lincoln told
us, "It seems to be a very heavy
                         meteor shower. Our weather
people told us to expect
                         something like this from the
10th to the 29th of October,
                         with the heaviest coming down
around the 15th. It seems to
                         probably be coming down a
little early. The mission of
                         NORAD U.S. Space Command is
tracking. Tracks
                         man-made objects, satellites,
things like that. Things that are
                         in orbit. So in this case
again, it's a meteor shower. We
                         would not necessarily see
that heavy the I.R. signature,
                         probably wouldn't be
significant enough, so that's what
                         people are witnessing."
                             That's the official word
from NORAD in Colorado
                         Springs. Although no one at
the U.S. Space Command
                         there witnessed the event.
Their response is based upon our
                         accounts of the lights.



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